I found Reddit about 6 years ago, took a little while to understand what it was about but when I finally got it, I felt like I had found the best place on the internet. Somewhere I could be my true self without being myself. Every time I logged in, I felt free. Like solo roaming the streets of a new city in a foreign country for the first time. Intellectual conversation, assistance on vague problems, sharing life experiences, advice, watching porn you didn’t know existed, and then slipping out the back door when you were done.

As many here already know, those days are gone. The freedom is gone, it feels like a communist regime and it seems that their success is their downfall. The entire personality of Reddit has changed and will never come back, it even shows in the users. The community is broken, unauthentic and the Truth has left the conversation. Freedom is dead over there. What a shame. It’s like my favorite bar burnt down.

But the thing that really gets me is that it didn’t just change, it became the exact opposite. It has become the exact reason why someone built it, in the first place.

I read that it’s attracting the most new users of all the social apps. Best performing app, which means the end is near. Soon it will just be a limb of the pretend society that we used to hide from behind the walls of Reddit. And for some reason, I just want to see it burn.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    155
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    Reddit died when they killed 3rd party apps and removed mods who protested, but it has been on the decline for a long time since Spez decided that reddit has to be transformed into something that shits money for him

    Edit: Insert obligatory “Fuck Spez” here

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      5 days ago

      Suppressing whitepeopletwitter was pretty much which side Reddit was supporting . That sub is back, but I’m betting itd on thin ice

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      5 days ago

      It’s the mods that are killing it. Absolute 1 dimensional neckbeard thinking, and the bots. I mean who the fuck in their right mind volunteers to work for a multi billion dollar tech company, right? Absolute neck beard degenerates, that’s who.

      Modding probably sucks ass, don’t get me wrong, but expel your efforts on modding something like a Lemmy instance, where it’s for good and not just efforts that go to buying another yacht for some billionaire laughing all the way to the bank

      • dil@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        I think its naive to think they dont take money for shilling, they could just discuss it off platform, links in the sidebar, referrals everywhere, ppl shilling their companeis in every post but some ppl get banned for it some dont

        • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          I’m sure there’s the odd mod that gets paid or allowed to monetize, but the vast majority of them are unpaid.

      • Ledericas@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        5 days ago

        Reddit also power mods, and power hungry mods that love gatekeep. Remember the antiwork mod fiasco

        • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          That antiwork fiasco was a perfect example of a typical reddit mod. At least what my interpretation would be.

          • Ledericas@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            24 hours ago

            that was so embarassing, they even allowed her/him back on the sub as a mod.

            • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              23 hours ago

              Really? That sub went from being legit to being a global beacon for a failing platform in less than 30 seconds.

              • Ledericas@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                6 hours ago

                its just all whining , quitting because of such a small disagreement with your boss? its not that serious. that was like 50-70% of the posts there.

      • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 days ago

        A lot of those neckbeard mods had been there from the start and are responsible for building the Reddit community from the beginning

        It’s no longer a community, it’s just trash